Rick Harrison is an American business owner with a net worth of $5 million. Rick Harrison obtained his net worth by being part of the Harrison family which owns Gold and Silver pawn shop in Las Vegas, Nevada that appears on the television show "Pawn Stars". Harrison was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, and at the age of 13 began running the pawnshop with his father, Richard "Old Man" Harrison. His son Corey also works in the store and is seen on the show along with childhood best friend Austin Chumlee Russell. Rick's nickname on the show is "The Spotter" and has said he originally dropped out of high school because he was making over two thousand dollars a week selling fake Gucci handbags. Pawn Stars is the number 1 show on The History Channel and was recently renewed for 80 episodes which is highly unusual for a reality series. Other Pawn Stars' net worths: Austin Chumlee Russell Net Worth Corey Harrison Net Worth Richard "Old Man" Harrison Net Worth

Richard "Rick" Kevin Harrison is a Las Vegas businessman and reality television personality, best known as the co-owner of the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, as featured on the History series Pawn Stars. Harrison is co-owner of the pawn shop with his father Richard Benjamin Harrison, which they founded in 1988 when Harrison was 23. Harrison dropped out of high school in order to "pursue his $2,000-a-week business of selling fake Gucci bags".As a child, Harrison suffered from epileptic seizures starting at age eight. He developed a love of reading when he was recovering from seizures and an affinity for non-fiction and The Great Brain children's books. He stated he was enamored by the The Great Brain books as the main character was always scheming to make money.Harrison and his father founded the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop less than two miles from the Las Vegas Strip in 1988. The business was founded to mainly pawn items, but also accepts items to buy and sell. According to Harrison, the items most often brought into the store are jewelry. Since the inception of Pawn Stars, Harrison's inventory now has a ratio of 5000 items pawned per 12000 items of the store's total stock. In 2010, the National Pawnbrokers Association awarded the Pawnbroker of the Year Award to Harrison for his contributions in enlightening the public about the pawn industry.Prior to 1989, Harrison, for four years but to no avail, had pitched the idea of making a show about a pawn shop after his shop was featured in the show Insomniac with Dave Attell in 2003. Brent Montgomery and Colby Gaines of Leftfield Pictures, in 2008 came up with an idea about a reality show based in a Las Vegas pawn shop and approached Harrison. The series was originally pitched to HBO, though the network preferred the series to have been a Taxicab Confessions-style series taking place at the Gold & Silver's night window. Nancy Dubuc, of the History Channel changed the format which included the on-camera experts appraisin

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In his stead, and especially with Harrison Barnes (rest) also out ... Barnes played 40 minutes during Friday's contest against the Raptors, so it appears coach Rick Carlisle doesn't want to push him on the second half of a back-to-back set.

Barnes is out for Saturday's contest against the Nets for rest purposes. Barnes played 40 minutes during Friday's contest against the Raptors, so it appears coach Rick Carlisle doesn't want to push him on the second half of a back-to-back set. In Barnes ...

McClelland, 42, a Democrat from Harrison, has twice run unsuccessfully against Rothfus ... Lamb is in a pitched battle with Republican Rick Saccone, a state representative, for the former 18th Congressional District. Lamb of Mt. Lebanon would find himself ...